Mattyblue

Which is exactly my point, some of them don’t ‘love football’ at all, it’s just a job. A lot of fans have the wrong impression that all footballers are as fanatical about the game, it’s history, it’s traditions etc as we are. Some are, of course, but a lot really aren’t that invested.

Some will, as they’ll be generally more students of the game. But for a lot of others, he will literally just be the new fella taking training.

I certainly agree with you on your last point, I’m all for blooding our own Academy grads over loaning in extremely raw players like Clarkson and Branthwaite who just hold back the development of our own lads.

Chaddy castigating someone else for looking at life ‘simply’ 😁 JDT the footballer will mean bugger all to most of the players, largely because a lot of them are very young and won’t remember him, that’s life. He’ll impress them with his coaching, man management, presence and ability to get results, the fact he played for AC Milan getting on for 20 years ago won’t come into it one bit.

So if someone says ‘I don’t want Player X because I don’t think he’s good enough for this club’ That’s ‘negative’, is it? And should be deleted? Surely having standards and wanting the very best players possible for your club is a highly positive mindset. Instead of accepting any old shite as that’s ‘positive’. This place is getting increasingly silly with all these ‘positive’ ‘negative’ posts, especially when half the folk doing it are highly hypocritical as they were relentlessly ‘negative’ towards the last manger.

Who defines what ‘positive’ is? The mods? You? Though like previous years we could have a thread just for links.

Well yes, if you had four first team central midfielders and all four got injured, a lot of clubs would be then looking to youth. But academy lads with not a minute of first team football as your only central midfielders outside Travis and Buckley? That isn’t a professional approach to highly competitive Championship football.

No, but other Championship clubs will also offer plenty more (as we’ve seen already this summer).

No, it took about a 1,000 years and ended in complete collapse, so sounds about right for this regime.

Really? At what level? Even in L1 he was agricultural at best.

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That wasn’t his argument, he said we don’t need to look to bring in experienced midfielders as those two can step straight in as first choice if Travis and Buckley are injured. Two academy lads who have never played a minute of first team football in a division as relentless as this - just silly. Your second paragraph is obviously what will happen and that’s fair enough.

Right, and they were thrown in together without ever playing a single minute and asked to run a first team, Championship level midfield between them? Or were they slowly blooded alongside experienced pros over a number of years?

‘Fine’? To have two academy lads who have never played a first team game an injury away from anchoring a Championship midfield? Lets hope GB and JDT are a little less flippant.

Imagine a PL chasing side playing a non league club in the run in with a full strength team these days!

Once again… so? The club has to does what it thinks is best for Blackburn Rovers. If that is selling a player, so be it, if it’s keeping him to maintain a push, fine. Upset fans should not come into it.

Not as nice as last season, but still better than the Teamwear shite Umbro and Nike used to provide.

You’d think so, considering how pretty much every Rovers player from first teamers to academy lads to the Ladies team get an article on there when they sign deals…

Out of practice, they need to get a game under their belts.

… and Etuhu… and Leon Best.

Since the dawn of time we must have played bloody awful in the first friendly, and every time fans get worried about it - but it really does mean absolutely nothing.

So? It was like all this the other week about ‘fans being up in arms if BB had signed a new deal in 2020’. The club either protects its assets and its balance sheet or it doesn’t, upset fans don’t come into it.

Whereas these days most walk out for feck all…

People have this impression that the ‘model’ the last few years is too buy cheap and sell high, but apart from AA when has it actually happened?